Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Shrub from prostrate to 1.2(–1.5)m high. Leaves usually narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly obovate or elliptic, medium to dark green on upper surface, paler or rarely similar on lower surface, 4–29 mm long, 1–9 mm wide; margins incurved or rarely recurved. Inflorescence erect or pendulous, 7–many-flowered; involucral bracts usually ovate, rarely lanceolate, 7–17 mm long, 5–11 mm wide, green or partly reddish. Flowers usually not much longer than bracts, white, pink or very rarely yellow; floral tube 10–16 mm long. Flowers Jun.–Jan.
Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. (including Bass Strait islands). A variable subspecies occupying a wide range of habitats throughout most of Victoria.
Very rarely, more than 4 involucral bracts subtend the flowers in this subspecies (Rye 1990).
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Bridgewater | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Far East | present | native | |
Victorian Alps | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
State |
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South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |